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  • An opossum. Watercolour.
  • A petaurine opossum. Etching.
  • A pygmy opossum climbing up a tree. Etching.
  • A Lemurine opossum climbing on a tree. Etching by Eastgate.
  • Kangaroo and vulpine opossum skulls: side views. Etching by P. Mazell, 1789.
  • Above, a sea otter; centre, an opossum; below, a white bear. Etching by Taylor.
  • A black flying opossum and a skeletal detail of its claw. Etching by P. Mazell.
  • A vulpine opossum sitting on the stump of a tree. Etching by P. Mazell after Latham.
  • An opossum climbing a tree while one of its young has left the pouch to clamber on the branch by itself. Etching.
  • An ill marsupial creature with a human head and long tail is seated in a chair being treated by two nurses; representing Daniel O'Connell's role in the County Carlow election of 1835. Coloured lithograph by R. Seymour, 1835.
  • Australia: above, a kangaroo; below, a common ringtail possum. Etching by C. Grignion, ca. 1788.
  • Comparaison of primitive reptile and primitive mammal